VERY local dive
Went diving with FreeFloat today, off Humber Bay West Point (yes, that's in Lake Ontariglow).
Great fun! While cold-ish, it's never really too cold under 7 mils of Neoprene.
Things we saw:
- fishies, fishies, fishies, in every nook and cranny
- zebra mussels
- giant boulders, sandy bottom
- zebra mussels
- lots of naked girls (okay, they were 12" tall and all named Barbie)
- zebra mussels
- large pipes ("culverts")
- "Local Traffic Only" (came upon this and almost lost my reg laughing)
- "Keep Right"
For me, the highlight was the culverts. Not 'per se' - what was in em. These are giant pipe sections, five feet in diameter and about the same long. I looked through one and saw an particulate haze hanging suspiciously inside. (Often, water has suspended particles of algae - the marine equivalent of house dust, making for poor visibility, but vis was great 25 feet or more. This haze hung with fairly distinct boundaries. Closer inspection showed that it was moving, living, alive. It was a shoal of thousands - millions - of tiny hatchlings, maybe a quarter inch long and transparent to the point of invisibility - except in large numbers. We couldn't figure out what they were, maybe fish, maybe crayfish.
OK, the traffic signs were a larf too (carefully anchored, suspended and marked with line). Divers have a weird sense of humour.
36 minutes bottom time, max depth 35 feet, temp 55, vis 25'
Great dive. Better than expected.
Thanks FreeFloat! We'll do it again in the spring!